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Racquety-Yak was a forum with some great posters and I just swung by there today to find out they were shutting down for good. They had one of the cleanest boards on the net which is always refreshing to see.

The Admin actually referred them over to Tennis4you as a good spot to post. I thought that was really cool of their Admin. I had worked with him bofore as they have hosted some of my articles and vis versa, Mat Galemo is part of the Lesson Lounge at Tennis4you.

Anyways, if you are from Racquety-Yak and are checking out Tennis4you, I hope you stick around, I already sorta know some of you, I hope to get to know you die hard tennis fans better.

Hi, I just had the pleasure to register and I want to thank you Scott for granting us asylum.

I'm a bit sad the rackyak years have abruptly ended but I always knew racquety-yak could not go on forever because there was so little activity. Anyway nice of Mat to have left a notice instead of just shutting it all without warning.

I hope more of the RacYak members are going to register here and I'm also looking forward to meeting new tennis fans here.

And indeed, you will have a chance to win yet another trophy at the FO. We started a Tennis4you seeding challange this yera at the slams. Guess which round the top 16 seeds will lose in. I am still looking for suggestions. We only gave one point for each right answer and had a bunch of ties. Next time we might do something like 1 point for the 1-4 rounds, 2 points for quarters, 3 points for semis and 4 points for finalist, 5 for winner.

But I am definitely open to suggestions. We will break it down and look at it closer as the FO draws closer.

My problem is that I have never played the Bracquety Challange and I do not know what it is. Is it similar to what I listed above? We just chatted about it before the AO and that is what we briefly came up with. We certainly do not want to plagerize.

I join with Trente-Quinze (whatever the heck that means...oh, shoot, can't we just keep calling you "Arnod," you silly Frog?) in thanking you for granting the Yakkers asylum here. Here's hoping we don't turn it INTO an asylum.

Whew, glad to hear the seeding challange thing we do here is different, we will carry on with that format and define it as we go. I think our next step is to just award more points like I mentioned above for picking players to go further so we can get out of having a 3 way tie for first place.

Hey, Scott, during the AO, we began a new "contest/trophy" appropriately called the Buttmunch Trophy. It was a dubious honor, to say the least. Those who chose players in the Bracquety Challenge to reach, for instance, the quarters but who, like Moya (btw, I'm still pissed at him), went out early earned the ignominious "trophy." There was some talk (was it Arnod or Dagnat) who suggested we might actually figure out a way to award points for earliest exits. I know it sounds pretty goofy but could be fun. That way those of us who are feeling brave (okay, sometimes stupid ) are more willing to stick our necks out for some of the longshots. Might have a shot of "winning" either way.